At the intersection of neuroscience and women’s health, Dr Lisa Mosconi's research is focused on how our genetics, hormones, environment, and lifestyle shape the brain — the female brain, in particular. Right now, tomorrow, and over the course of a lifetime.

Lisa Mosconi is an Italian American neuroscientist, educator, and author known for her books The XX Brain and Brain Food. She is the Director of the Women’s Brain Initiative and Director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic, both at Weill Cornell Medical College, where she is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience in Neurology